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How Our Social Participation Varies – Active to Passive

September 30th, 2010

What’s Your City’s Social Rank?

September 15th, 2010

Interesting infograph from Oxford Communications.  Personally, I think Portland is more social than we’re given credit for…

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Social Marketing Compass – Infograph

September 10th, 2010

Weekly Wrap Up – 8.13.10

August 13th, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Facebook Readying Its Mobile-Social Move - Adotas

Heavy Twitter Users Bring Social Activity to New Heights - eMarketer

How Starbucks Plans to Capitalize on Free Wi-Fi - Mashable

The Science of Sharing: Platforms inject data into the art of going viral - AdWeek

How Nike’s CEO Shook Up the Shoe Industry (off topic, but GREAT read) - FastCompany

Is Facebook Foursquare’s Enemy? It’s Complicated - Mashable

Facebook’s Foursquare competitor is imminent - CNET

Social Media Strategy Lessons From Pepsi - Business Insider

D.I.Y. Tool for Apps Needs Work - NYTimes

The Best and Worst Campaign Deals on Foursquare’s Turf -  ClickZ

Digital Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media

Social Vehicles Get Vintage Advertising

August 12th, 2010

Weekly Wrap Up – 8.6.10

August 6th, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Say goodbye to the era of new stand-alone social networks – Guardian UK

Why Facebook Questions Could Be Zuckerberg’s Dream Come True – ReadWriteWeb

Google, undisputed heavyweight champion of mobile search – Pingdom

More Than 60% of Phones Web Capable by 2015 – ReadWriteWeb

Vice, a Media Company, Shows Big Brands How to Reach the Hip Crowd – NYTimes

Digital Media Director 2.0: Jack-of-all-Trades, Master of Many – FastCompany

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Blogging – Mashable

Check-In On Foursquare Without Taking Your Phone Out Of Your Pocket – TechCrunch

BlackBerry’s New Torch Makes a Leap From Drab – WSJ

Apple and the war for the mobile market – arstechnica

How Starbucks Reached 10M Fans: 6 Tips From A Social Media Superstar – Critical Mass

Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media

Weekly Wrap Up – 7.30.10

July 30th, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Forrester: Why Most Marketers Should Forgo Foursquare – AdAge

And the rebuttal…

Four Reasons Brands Must Check in to Foursquare. Now. – AdAge

Twitter Disconnect Between Marketers And Consumers – MediaPost

Are Location-Based Services All Hype? – NYTimes

Majority of Consumers Use Social Networks to Inform Buying Decisions – ReadWriteWeb

There will be blood: why Apple and Intel are destined to clash – ars technica

Once More, with Feeling: Making Sense of Social Media – Brian Solis

The Race to Organise Television – The Economist

Google Develops a Facebook Rival – WSJ

Why the Facebook-Amazon.com integration is bigger than you think – VentureBeat

Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media

Twitter User? Need A Job?

July 28th, 2010

If you are a person who needs a job, is a strong user of Twitter, and has solid experience incorporating the service into your marketing activities, the odds are on your side.  In a report released this week by Simply Hired, the instances of Twitter related jobs has exploded since 2008 – increasing by 2843%.  Amazing.

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Weekly Wrap Up – 7.23.10

July 23rd, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Android Versus Android: Which Phones Are Winning on the Web? – Mashable

Content Farms 101: Why Suite101 Publishes 500 Articles a Day – NYTimes

Beyond Foursquare: What Search Engines Could Do With Location Data – ReadWriteWeb

How to Measure Brand Value: Likes, Followers, Influencers, Views? No, Social Currency – FastCompany

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media – Mashable

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Diane Sawyer – ABC News

Amazon Mobile Sales Topped $1 Billion In Past 12 Months – paidContent

Facebook Connects 500 Million People: Defines a New Era of Digital Society –  Brian Solis

11 Mind-Blowing Mobile Marketing Infographics – HubSpot

Facebook Could Transform Mobile Phones – BusinessWeek

Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media

Summing Up Social Media

July 20th, 2010

This graphic pretty much captures the essence…  it’s not just one component – it’s all components dancing in unison.  (courtesy: FastCompany).

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